The room’s tall, oblong windows, refurbished by Irons but unchanged in their positioning, are aligned to offer views that look out, as confirmed by my iPhone’s compass, precisely to the north, south, east, and west.

There are always people eager to align themselves with the system, with power, with orderliness, to avoid the disturbing, disruptive work of turning things upside down in the process of making them better.

But there is at least one issue on which Manning has publicly indicated a willingness to break with conservative orthodoxy and align himself with the libertarian leanings of the Koch brothers—marijuana legalization.

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Origin and Etymology of align

French aligner, from Old French, from a- (from Latin ad-) + ligne line, from Latin linea